"Almost every matter of the moment boils down to the same story: The Left’s urge to narrow the bounds of public discourse and insist that ‘conventional wisdom’ unknown to the world the day before yesterday is now as unquestionable as the laws of physics" – Mark Steyn

Monthly Archives: September 2009

Ed Flynn, a columnist for the Stalinpaltz Rancorous-Inbreeder,* tells readers he has never seen it so bad. In a list of four examples for his lead paragraph that begins “I’ve never known a time when America seemed more angry,” he … Continue reading →

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…of the 20th Century was the astonishing popular political allure of revolting malignant narcissists around the world. We had a good helping of them in the United States, including Saint Franklin of Roosevelt, who was barely contained, and sometimes not … Continue reading →

Just listened to it, breaking my own policy of never watching him. But something told me to pay attention. It was a belligerently partisan speech, I thought. Subtly racialist, or maybe not so subtle. Trying to tie his presidency in … Continue reading →

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I got the news yesterday morning from Joe St. George that Frank Patricolo has died. He was living in Portland, Oregon, and he had been seriously ill for several years. Frank and I were only slightly acquainted personally, but I … Continue reading →

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I guess what happened is that both the town and the village governments entered into separate contracts with the same local videography outfit to handle town and village board meetings as well as some of the other government meetings, like … Continue reading →

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VDH’s analysis: The Presidentâ€™s U.N.* talk was more of the same, same old formula: Me, me, me/then Bush blew it/then I came/and, presto, the waters parted. There is no need to listen to these speeches anymore That’s what I’ve been … Continue reading →

A word made all but meaningless by its frivolous use does actually have its applications. Here is one of them: Maybe Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus should put a gag order on Douglas Elmendorf too. On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget … Continue reading →

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I can’t think of a more pronounced, but perfectly true, insult than that. Victor Davis Hanson: If you are confused by the first nine months of the Obama administration, take solace that there is at least a pattern. The president, … Continue reading →

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It’s up there with Piltdown Man. “The Dog Ate Global Warming.” Patrick Michaels is on the matter. As noted here before, the undergirding data for warming, as unimpressive and misrepresented as it was in the first place, has “gone missing.” … Continue reading →

Listen, the past months, the next months, next years, have provided and will provide a virtually inexhaustible number of opportunities to ask “Can you imagine if George Bush had done this?” or “Can you imagine if the Bush White House … Continue reading →

Soja dips into the Wellesley thesis and finds the flat affect of the puritanical radical. Sometimes the 1960s at American universities, especially when it came to elite radicals like Hillary, strike me as being akin to the nuclear blast over … Continue reading →

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Mark Hemingway collects three examples of the Left coming unhinged and comparing the atmosphere of opposition to Obama to the myth that Jack Kennedy was murdered by crazy right-wingers. Jonah Goldberg helps Hemingway out by offering a few paragraphs from … Continue reading →